Saint Charles Borromeo (1584)

He was the nephew of Pope Pius IV. He was “the soul of the Council of Trent,” which protected the Catholic Faith in the sixteenth century against the inroads of the Protestant Reformation. Saint Charles Borromeo wrote the following prayer to his Guardian Angel: “O beloved angel, who has been given me as a protector by the Divine Majesty, I desire to die in the Faith which the Holy, Roman and Apostolic Church adheres to and defends, in which all the saints of the New Testament have died, and outside of which there is no salvation.” Saint Charles Borromeo gave Saint Aloysius his first Holy Communion.

See also: Council of Trent

Saint Charles Borromeo, by Orazio Borgianni (source)

Saint Charles Borromeo, by Orazio Borgianni (source)